The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 44
Now, at that time there reigned over Greece a king who was very rich and powerful, although his name has somehow been forgotten.
Who acts: king · What happens: reign, be, forget, name · To what, where: Greece, name
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 reigned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reigned | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 time | advmod |
| 7 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 Greece | case |
| 9 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reigned | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rich | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 rich | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rich | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 rich | advmod |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reigned | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 powerful | cc |
| 17 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rich | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgotten | punct |
| 19 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 25 forgotten | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 forgotten | aux |
| 23 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 25 forgotten | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 25 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rich | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | Greece | now; time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a king | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | forget | present · perfect · passive | king's name | somehow property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | king | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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